PurposeMapping rural poverty and its links with agricultural resources endowment

Supplemental InformationMethodology: Livestock income takes into account primary income of live animal and milk sale as well as the added value of fattening and dairy industry. Statistical data were available for relatively large spatial units (province or district). A livestock distribution coefficient depending on land use/land cover was introduced for the spatial downscaling. In order to obtain reasonnable allocation per pixel, a biomass fraction useful to livestock has been defined for five different groups of land use: - rainfed cultivation (0.2) - irrigated cultivation (0.4) - bare land (0.05) - forest (0.1) - rangelands (0.7) Each LULC map unit was then assigned a "Livestock Value". The allocation of livestock income per pixel could then be derived from the ratio of the total income to the sum of livestock values in the administrative units for which income data were available. The unit is Syrian Pounds (SYP) per pixel and per year.

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Calendar Date2007

Currentness Referencepublication date

Status

ProgressComplete

Maintenance and Update FrequencyNone planned

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Bounding Coordinates

West Bounding Coordinate35.615639

East Bounding Coordinate42.382306

North Bounding Coordinate37.319014

South Bounding Coordinate32.310680

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Distribution LiabilityICARDA declines all responsibility for errors or deficiencies in the database or in the documentation accompanying it, for maintenance or for updating the database. Users are however kindly requested to report any errors or deficiencies in this product to ICARDA.ICARDA is no authority on country boundaries and follows UN practice regarding country boundary location, as indicated on the United Nations Cartographic Website: http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm

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Transfer Size2.384

Technical PrerequisitesArcGIS, or ArcView with Spatial Analyst extension. Metadata can be read directly in ArcCatalog or in a Web browser using the HTML pages provided separately.

Metadata Reference Information

Metadata Date20090804

Metadata Contact

Contact Information

Contact Person Primary

Contact PersonFrancois Delobel

Contact OrganizationInternational Center for Research in the Dry Areas - ICARDA